Forest Home Cemetery (Forest Park)

Forest Home Cemetery is a cemetery located at 863 S. Des Plaines Ave, Forest Park, Illinois, adjacent to the Eisenhower Expressway, straddling the Des Plaines River in Cook County, just west of Chicago.

[2] The gravesite of Joseph Carter Corbin, a pioneer in Black education and founder of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, was added to the National Register in 2023.

[4][5] Two memorials at Forest Home are dedicated to Native Americans who lived in the region prior to white settlement.

In homage to the Haymarket martyrs, other anarchists and socialists later chose to be buried at Waldheim, well into the 20th century, including:[10] The cemetery also includes the graves of: The cemetery is also the final resting place for 45 victims of the 1903 Iroquois Theater fire that killed over 600.

The memorial of Phil Sheridan Post 615, based in Oak Park, Illinois, is atop the gravesite of one of its former presidents, Wilbur Fisk Crummer.

Ceremony at the Haymarket Martyrs' Monument in Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois, in May 1986, in which singer Utah Philips and others commemorated the 100th anniversary of the Haymarket Affair
Emma Goldman 's grave. Jo Davidson was the sculptor of the bronze bas relief image of Goldman. (The dates of birth and death on the stone are incorrect.)